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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

At online shopping website Gilt, there are no offices; everyone sits at tables with other members of their team.

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If workers need privacy, they can use a conference room; Gilt’s conference rooms are named after cities and countries.

Noam Galai

Noam Galai

When they need more quiet and privacy, AppNexus employees can use “phone booths,” complete with soundproofing foam.

Noam Galai

Some engineers wanted more quiet in order to concentrate, so they set up an additional space on the 6 ½ floor.

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An erasable whiteboard explains where to find the companies currently occupying space at Betaworks. Findings, Swirl, News.me and Branch all share a single room.

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The White Board in action: (clockwise from left) Swirl, Findings, News.me and Branch, quietly working at Betaworks.

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This graffiti mural remains on the wall in an empty room at Betaworks, after the company that painted it, SocialFlow, moved on to larger quarters. Betaworks launches companies, and their aim is, according to their “director of people” Jonathan Basker, to “constantly be firing ourselves.”

At start-up accelerator TechStars, 13 companies share a single room. Techstars associate Zack Perret recalls that when one company recently needed assistance setting up payroll, he just went across the room and asked another company for help.

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The offices of 2Tor, an online education company.

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The offices of 2Tor, an online education start-up, include an outdoor deck, overlooking Chelsea piers.

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